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From Trebizond to Kallithea: Pontian Greeks, Perceptions of Greekness, and the Birth of Modern States
By Isaure Vorstman Abstract Between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C., a colony of Greek merchants and sailors left mainland Greece to settle on the northeastern coast of Asia Minor, on the shores of the Black Sea, in a territory they baptised “Πόντος,” (“Pontos”) literally meaning “sea.” There they developed a distinct identity, culture, and…
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Soviet Women’s Acceptance of Infantilization as a Means of Compromise, Resistance, and Denial on the Frontlines of World War II and Beyond
By Julia-Maria Xavier Content Warning: Sexual Assault Abstract World War II was marked by the violent acquisition of land, shaping, and re-shaping of territories and populations both in its immediacy and aftermath. For citizens of the Soviet Union, like most other nations, defending their territory was an issue of patriotism, in which all citizens were…
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The Role of Memory Politics in Contemporary Serbia: Why does 1389 Still Matter in 2022?
By Olivia Pape Abstract: This article discusses the way in which the contemporary Serbian government appropriates collective memory of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, as well as the construction of the memory narrative upon which the contemporary Serbian state is built. By analyzing relevant scholarship, this essay explores the roots of contemporary Serbian…
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Belgian Artists in Exile, 1914-1918
By Emily Grenon In 1916, La League des Artistes Belges [the League of Belgian Artists] published an illustrated volume in association with the magazine Colour. This collection, Belgian Art in Exile: A Representative Gallery of Modern Belgian Art, was intended to raise money for three charities: The Belgian Red Cross, the Convalescent Home for Belgian…
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Discontent on the Surface: A Brief Look into Murals, Bonfires and Discourse in Northern Ireland
By Benjamin Marshall Abstract The violent outset of The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s has taken a religiously and culturally divided society and added an element of extremism, terrorism, segregation, and sectarianism. Both sides have flown their own flags, literally and figuratively with pro-paramilitary songs and parades, car-bombings, targeted shootings, and constant…
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The Voices of a Few: Women in the Gulag
Shack from Gulag- Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Photo: Marcin Szala/Wikimedia Commons. No changes made. View the license here. By: Julia Maria-Xavier The Stalinist era saw millions of people caught within the penal system, whether in prisons, labour camps, forced labour colonies, or exile, and millions more who bore the traumatic experience of being…
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Identity and Place – vol. XI